Overview

• Hospital staff discovered on July 17 the mutilated body of an unidentified man near the Oncology Department, with bruises and scattered remains suggesting a dog attack.
• Medical Outpost police and hospital authorities have opened separate inquiries into the circumstances of the death and the identity of the victim.
• The man was not a registered patient but is believed to have been living on campus for days, and the precise cause of death remains undetermined pending a post-mortem.
• Dr. Sanjay Mallick, the hospital superintendent, warned that about 150 stray dogs enter through damaged boundary walls and linger because they are fed by patients and visitors.
• Darjeeling MP Raju Bista condemned the incident as evidence of the hospital’s deteriorating infrastructure and called for immediate action on security and animal control.